Your IoT’s not sick – Someone just turned it into a brick! A 14-year-old hacker created a new strain of malware called “Silex malware” which bricked over 4000 IoT devices in the span of a few hours. Once again, the world is shocked to find that IoT devices are vulnerable to all kinds of attacks.…

MWC went by so fast that you may have missed some of the highlights. Luckily, we’ve compiled the following takeaways from the Barcelona conference. With apologies to Don Adams, it really is time to Get Smart! From Smart Cities and Smart Homes, to Smart Mobility and Smart Wellness, you might think that we’ve moved out…

(The following article is reprinted from Brilliance Security Magazine) Consumer cybersecurity needs have significantly changed over the past years. With the rising global dependence on smart devices for everything from waking up in the morning to dimming the lights at night, it is safe to say that smart homes are the new normal. However, there…

I’ve never really liked horror movies. They tend to give me the creeps. But I can’t help feeling that some of the scenes from those movie scripts are threatening to jump out of the screen and impact our everyday lives. It’s true that the Internet of Things (IoT) is making a huge impact on our…

We all know what Phishing is—a target is contacted by email, telephone, or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution or website to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as banking or credit card credentials. The problem is that people have now become wiser and think twice before clicking. A group of…

On August 2nd, 2018, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued the following Public Service Announcement: “Cyber Actors Use Internet of Things Devices as Proxies for Anonymity and Pursuit of Malicious Cyber Activities” This announcement was one in a series of FBI alerts issued over the past three years that focused on the potential…

Danger: VPNFilter Malware: What is it and how is network-based security best placed to thwart it? What’s this latest threat? A new malware threat has emerged that poses such a serious potential threat to data security that the FBI has advised all router users to reboot their devices. The malware, called VPNFilter, can spy…

Cryptocurrency Hijacking Cryptocurrency hijacking, or “cryptojacking” is one of the major threats faced by Enterprise IT teams today, and probably the most underestimated. Cryptojacking involves the covert, illegal use of targeted computing resources to mine cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency mining requires massive processing power to solve complex algorithms as part of the blockchain validation mechanism. This…

Five years ago, a “hacktivist” group of cyber-disruptors united to attack the Internet infrastructure and websites of the State of Israel. The initial date of that attack was the 7th of April 2013, the eve of Israel’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day, and they have continued to target Israel every year on the anniversary of…

True story. All I wanted was to upgrade our home thermostat to a smart one. What did I end up with? A lecture about IoT security. Who gave me the lecture? You won’t guess—my wife! Smart and educated, my wife is well-versed in what’s going on in the world through reading newspapers and watching…